Montina

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Montina is a type of flour created from milled Indian rice grass, a type of grass native to Montana. (The grass is not related to rice.) The flour is gluten-free. Montina was "invented" by Dr. David Sands, a plant pathologist at Montana State University. In 1999-2000, Sands rose to international infamy by openly advocating for the United States to wage biological warfare against illicit crops in Colombia. Of course, Dr. Sands stood to financially gain from this proposal.

Sands' plan, to use "Agent Green" (the fungus Fusarium oxysporum), came under international ridicule, as indigenous peoples, farmers, governments, and non-governmental organizations came together to oppose it. After the European Parliament, among others, rejected the plan, President Bill Clinton signed a memorandum that terminated it, citing concerns that it would violate the Biological Weapons Convention.

Another of the contributiors to Montina is Duane L Johnson, a Montana plant breeder. Johnson has earned the wrath of indigenous people through his patent on quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), an Andean food staple developed by indigenous people and grown in traditional agriculture at high altitudes from Colombia to Chile. Although accused of biopiracy, Johnson and his co-inventor at Colorado State University argue their claim on the basis of a right to claim the inventions of other people as their own intellectual property.